Frameworks are a critical, if underappreciated, component of any space exploration mission. They can range from the overall ...

The lander blasted off from Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket in January and is currently orbiting the Moon at an altitude of ...

NASA needs a small army of robots and rovers to help explore the moon’s treacherous terrain. A college competition produced some innovative ideas. Engineering students from Northeastern ...

Meet Grace, the brave hopper robot that’s designed to jump into the darkest depths of the Moon, providing never-before-seen views of permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole.

This will help with that process of robots assisting humans in exploring foreign landscapes. “When it comes to putting humans on the moon, or in the next couple of decades, putting humans on ...

The Resilience lander is carrying a small rover, named Tenacious, to Mare Frigoris, located in the Moon’s far northern ...

To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has been working on a robot that could handle the ...

"This research is motivated by NASA's Moon to Mars objective, and its future works putting humans and robot on the moon — and eventually, Mars — together,” said Cristina Wilson with Oregon ...

A thumb-size $100 robot from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has arrived at the south pole of the moon. But the machine, called AstroAnt, isn’t going to explore the lunar surface.

"We want to break the robots many times. Fix them, run them again. By the time they get to the moon and Mars, they'll work." This rover race is part of a new festival Mueller dreamed up called ...